re:digitize...maybe laser

Patrick,

Nice link!

This looks "hackable"! Looks like a triangulation laser distance
finder with some "glue" bits (to hold it all together). They appear
to do the scan-to-gcode directly.

And the ISO taper mount! Neat! So we "scan" the original (using
our "teach-in" mode (earlier posts). Then replace it with the raw
stock, change "tooling", and ...

I also liked the tympanon "portable" digitiser.

Thank you.

Ballendo

P.S. The arm allows undercut and hidden surfaces to be digitised.
Also the means of use will prevent the "too much information"
problem. Hands and fingers do get tired!

The data reduction problem has been on the minds of the CAD/CAM crowd
for some time now. Solutions are beginning to appear in the lower end
software.

>Maybe the arm is too complicated an idea. Perhaps instead we could
>use something more like a laser range finder attached to a 3 axis
>rig.
>One of the more difficult issues is the enormous amount of
>data a system like this produces.
>Patrick